What Your Community Needs to Know About Litter

Litter is Dangerous

The community you live in may not have a concern about litter, but it is a serious problem worldwide. While most individuals say they do not leave litter on the ground or in the water, a recent survey revealed that approximately 75 percent of them have tossed trash outside at least once in the last five years. Unfortunately, one of the most common items tossed on the ground is cigarette butts that can contaminate water and soil in addition to starting a fire. Litter is dangerous because tossed trash degrades to leach chemicals into ground soil and water systems. But wait, there's more...

Litter pick up

Importance of Community Involvement

If you are complaining constantly about trash on the ground and in parking lots, arrange a community cleanup. Walk around your neighborhood to recruit others to create a plan concerning removing unsightly trash. Make posters to advertise your community cleanup day and goals. Create colorful posters to place in public places such as grocery stores and libraries that state the day and time arranged for the community event. Just about anyone can get involved in the cleanup with simple to use trash grabbers that will keep debris away from their hands. Also known as reachers and grabbers, these devices are found at online stores.

How to recruit people to your cause.

One of the best ways to give back to your community is with a litter pick up campaign. Read more...

School Spirit

The way you feel about your school has a lot to do with how the campus looks, but the way the campus looks also has an impact on the way others feel about your school. How would you feel if you visited a campus with litter and trash all over the ground and graffiti covering lockers? It might make you think twice about spending any time there and make you wonder if you remembered to lock your car doors. Cleaning up your campus can also foster school spirit and work well as part of a spirit week or homecoming week. You can plan something as simple as a litter clean up day or something a little more elaborate

Give Back by Clearing Roads of Litter

Giving back to your community isn't always an easy task. In some towns, everything that needs to be done may have already been completed. 

This may seem discouraging at first; however, it is important to remember that road side litter pick up is a service that is always needed. When you volunteer for road side litter pick up, you will always find an area to clean.